While obsidian is running, symlink a directory external to the vault. You can access files in it from obsidian. Now restart Obsidian. The symlink is no longer recognized.
Expected result
Symlinks should have the same treatment whether they were created while obsidian is running or before. If symlinks are followed properly it should be possible to create new files in the symlinked dir. But this does not work either.
At the moment, we don’t have any specific threatment/support for symlinks.
So, I suggest you open a feature request asking for proper support of symlinks.
I’m on osx here, I tried using symlinks and at first it worked. But now that I check again it’s gone in the file explorer. Having support for symlinks would be great and very helpful!
Symlinks will not be implemented in the short-term.
There are significant technical challenges implementing a file watcher when symlinks are involved.
This bug report is about consistency, i.e. at moment we do not support symlinks, hence they should not appear if created while Obs running (minor bug).
If you want symlinks in the future, open a feature request.